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- Author: Sarah Neidhardt
- Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
- ISBN-10: 1682262278
- ISBN-13: 9781682262276
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Sarah Neidhardt grew up in the woods. When she was an infant, her parents left behind comfortable, urbane lives to take part in the back-to-the-land movement. They moved their young family to an isolated piece of land deep in the Arkansas Ozarks where they built a cabin, grew crops, and strove for eight years to live self-sufficiently.
In this vivid memoir Neidhardt explores her childhood in wider familial and social contexts. Drawing upon a trove of family letters and other archival material, she follows her parents' journey from privilege to food stamps--from their formative youths, to their embrace of pioneer homemaking and rural poverty, to their sudden and wrenching return to conventional society--and explores the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s as it was, and as she lived it. A story of strangers in a strange land, of class, marriage, and family in a changing world, Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods is part childhood idyll, part cautionary tale. Sarah Neidhardt reveals the treasures and tolls of unconventional, pastoral lives, and her insightful reflections offer a fresh perspective on what it means to aspire to pre-industrial lifestyles in a modern world.EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
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- Author: Sarah Neidhardt
- Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
- ISBN-10: 1682262278
- ISBN-13: 9781682262276
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Sarah Neidhardt grew up in the woods. When she was an infant, her parents left behind comfortable, urbane lives to take part in the back-to-the-land movement. They moved their young family to an isolated piece of land deep in the Arkansas Ozarks where they built a cabin, grew crops, and strove for eight years to live self-sufficiently.
In this vivid memoir Neidhardt explores her childhood in wider familial and social contexts. Drawing upon a trove of family letters and other archival material, she follows her parents' journey from privilege to food stamps--from their formative youths, to their embrace of pioneer homemaking and rural poverty, to their sudden and wrenching return to conventional society--and explores the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s as it was, and as she lived it. A story of strangers in a strange land, of class, marriage, and family in a changing world, Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods is part childhood idyll, part cautionary tale. Sarah Neidhardt reveals the treasures and tolls of unconventional, pastoral lives, and her insightful reflections offer a fresh perspective on what it means to aspire to pre-industrial lifestyles in a modern world.
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